Object

Representation ID: 124

Received: 06/03/2014

Respondent: Kesgrave Covenant Ltd

Agent: Mersea Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The document only sets out its strategy for future development in part. Through reliance on windfall sites and deferring decisions about growth later in the Plan period, it only shows locations for just over 50% of the 10,500 homes needed to 2031. Although the Plan period is extended and the housing requirement increased, the strategy has not changed from the adopted Core Strategy. The Review fails to identify specific deliverable sites or broad locations for the full housing requirement, and fails the tests of Soundness.
Sites/broad locations should be identified within the Borough first to meet the full housing requirement.

Comment

Representation ID: 206

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Historic England

It is not clear why the key diagram depicts a relatively constrained area within the town centre as "Conservation of the Historic Core", given that the historic core of Ipswich goes beyond this area and includes places such as the Waterfront. It implies that the historic environment beyond this constrained area may not be conserved.

Support

Representation ID: 721

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Crest Strategic Projects

The key diagram is an important part of the Core Strategy. Crest supports the identification of key regeneration opportunities within the Borough and supports the principle of planning for a strong, healthy core. Crest fully supports the presentation of the Northern Fringe as the location of development to 2031 and welcomes the deletion of the suggestion that only limited development could take place there before 2021. This important amendment is a more positive policy and introduces suitable flexibility to allow the key supply of deliverable housing land to contribute materially to the housing target early in the plan period.

Object

Representation ID: 792

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

bullet iii Allocates the entire Ipswich Northern Fringe for development and our comments regarding page 22 also apply here. Urban regeneration and improving more deprived areas will be facilitated by limiting development on the Northern Fringe during the early years of the CS. Whilst we welcome the Governments recent announcement to offer incentives for the development of brownfield sites, we believe some form of restriction should be retained to help achieve regeneration/deprivation and sustainability objectives (i.e. Section 8.6).